Windows Mobile 7 Xbox Live games announced

The Gadget Show  Tuesday 17 August 2010

Guitar Hero 5 – coming to your phone soon

Windows 7 and Xbox Live have just announced details of how they will be playing nice to bring the latest gaming staright to your new Windows Phone OS. Today at GamesCon 2010, Microsoft lifted the lid on just which XBox Live games would make an appearance on the new hansets – and the lineup’s looking pretty tasty.

Claimed to be putting “the power of Xbox LIVE into the palm of your hand”, Windows Mobile 7 handsets will bring mobile versions of your favourite Xbox titles to your phone, including Guitar Hero 5, Assassins Creed and Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst.

Windows Mobile 7 and Xbox Live love will also be shared by letting you connect to your Xbox Live avatar, browse your Live friends and see who’s online, view and launch your full games library and but titles from the Marketplace. You can also message your Xbox Live pals and keep track of your achievements on your Live leaderboards.

Here’s the full list of Xbox Live titles that will be available at Windows Mobile 7 launch. What do you think? Will this make you more likely to invest in a Windows phone?

· “3D Brick Breaker Revolution” (Digital Chocolate) · “Age of Zombies” (Halfbrick) · “Armor Valley” (Protégé Games) · “Asphalt 5” (Gameloft) · “Assassins Creed” (Gameloft) · “Bejeweled™ LIVE” (PopCap) · “Bloons TD” (Digital Goldfish) · “Brain Challenge” (Gameloft) · “Bubble Town 2” (i-Play) · “Butterfly” (Press Start Studio) · “CarneyVale Showtime” (MGS) · “Castlevania” (Konami) · “Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst” (MGS) · “De Blob Revolution” (THQ) · “Deal or No Deal 2010” (i-Play) · “Earthworm Jim” (Gameloft) · “Fast & Furious 7” (i-Play) · “Fight Game Rivals” (Rough Cookie) · “Finger Physics” (Mobliss Inc.) · “Flight Control” (Namco Bandai) · “Flowerz” (Carbonated Games) · “Frogger” (Konami) · “Fruit Ninja” (Halfbrick) · “Game Chest-Board” (MGS) · “Game Chest-Card” (MGS) · “Game Chest-Logic” (MGS) · “Game Chest-Solitaire” (MGS) · “GeoDefense” (Critical Thought) · “Ghostscape” (Psionic) · “Glow Artisan” (Powerhead Games) · “Glyder 2” (Glu Mobile) · “Guitar Hero 5” (Glu Mobile) · “Halo Waypoint” (MGS) · “Hexic Rush” (Carbonated Games) · “I Dig It” (InMotion) · “iBlast Moki” (Godzilab) · “ilomilo” (MGS) · “Implode XL” (IUGO) · “Iquarium” (Infinite Dreams) · “Jet Car Stunts” (True Axis) · “Let’s Golf 2” (Gameloft) · “Little Wheel” (One click dog) · “Loondon” (Flip N Tale) · “Max and the Magic Marker” (PressPlay) · “Mini Squadron” (Supermono Limited) · “More Brain Exercise” (Namco Bandai) · “O.M.G.” (Arkedo) · “Puzzle Quest 2” (Namco Bandai) · “Real Soccer 2” (Gameloft) · “The Revenants” (Chaotic Moon) · “Rise of Glory” (Revo Solutions) · “Rocket Riot” (Codeglue) · “Splinter Cell Conviction” (Gameloft) · “Star Wars: Battle for Hoth” (THQ) · “Star Wars: Cantina” (THQ) · “The Harvest” (MGS) · “The Oregon Trail” (Gameloft) · “Tower Bloxx NY” (Digital Chocolate) · “Twin Blades” (Press Start Studio) · “UNO” (Gameloft) · “Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet” (i-Play) · “Zombie Attack!” (IUGO) · “Zombies!!!!” (Babaroga)